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authorLinus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>2015-12-21 09:36:21 +0100
committerLinus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>2015-12-21 09:36:21 +0100
commit0529357f102b96f68bc199f858d1c3b07f4b674c (patch)
treeeaa047952a768099e00a5245afa0d84799df6990 /kernel/locking/osq_lock.c
parenta9f1a3e4c1c7dc82711bc22dc52c7b0d6912ed56 (diff)
parent4ef7675344d687a0ef5b0d7c0cee12da005870c0 (diff)
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Merge tag 'v4.4-rc6' into devel
Linux 4.4-rc6
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/locking/osq_lock.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/locking/osq_lock.c8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/locking/osq_lock.c b/kernel/locking/osq_lock.c
index d092a0c..05a3785 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/osq_lock.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/osq_lock.c
@@ -93,10 +93,12 @@ bool osq_lock(struct optimistic_spin_queue *lock)
node->cpu = curr;
/*
- * ACQUIRE semantics, pairs with corresponding RELEASE
- * in unlock() uncontended, or fastpath.
+ * We need both ACQUIRE (pairs with corresponding RELEASE in
+ * unlock() uncontended, or fastpath) and RELEASE (to publish
+ * the node fields we just initialised) semantics when updating
+ * the lock tail.
*/
- old = atomic_xchg_acquire(&lock->tail, curr);
+ old = atomic_xchg(&lock->tail, curr);
if (old == OSQ_UNLOCKED_VAL)
return true;
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